ENG 4339 Lecture 2: english-for-social-scientists-lecture-notes-lesson-1
UNIDAD DE MUESTRA DE LA ASIGNATURA: ENGLISH FOR SOCIAL SCIENTISTS.
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GRADOS: Ciencia Política y de la Administración, Sociología, Economía y Administración y Dirección de Empresas.
Autoras Margarita Goded y Lourdes Pomposo
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LESSON 1.
DESCRIBING AND PRESENTING PRODUCTS AND SERVICES: PRICES, QUALITY, WEIGHT AND SIZE.
- General Objectives
- Specific objectives.
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PART 1. USE OF LANGUAGE
Introduction.
1.1. Word order in English. Basic writing skills.
1.1.1. The sentence
1.1.2. The paragraph
Practice.
1.2. Relative clauses.
Practice.
1.3. The use of adjectives and adverbs. Comparatives and superlatives.
Practice.
1.4. Present simple and present continuous.
Practice.
1.5. Numbers and measures.
Practice.
PART 2. READING AND WRITING SKILLS.
- Reading Comprehension 1.
- Reading comprehension 2 + writing skills.
Check your progress.
Extra activities.
Bibliography
Glossary.
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Autoras Margarita Goded y Lourdes Pomposo
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How to work with each unit.
Punctuation and language use are important components of spoken and written English. Each unit will
be divided into two parts: use of language and contents.
o In the use of language part you will always have a theory section that consists of a short
reminder of basic aspects of grammar, and a practice section with short exercises to check that
you have understood the theory. All this practice will also work as a self-evaluation section.
o The content part consists of reading and writing practice in order to improve your formal
academic English. This will involve reading different types of texts, linking words, expressions,
introductions and conclusions.
o At the end of each unit you will have to read a long scientific text and answer some
comprehension exercises that you will send to your tutor.
LESSON 1.
Describing and presenting products and services: prices, quality, weight and size.
General objectives
In this lesson you will first learn how to describe products and services and then you will learn how to
measure them.
Specific objectives
1. Describe objects and services. Revise basic writing skills. The sentence and the paragraph.
2. Review of basic grammar aspects related to the main general objectives: Word order, use of
present tenses, adjectives and comparative forms and relative clauses.
3. Numbers: how to write them. Differences between American and British English.
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GRADOS: Ciencia Política y de la Administración, Sociología, Economía y Administración y Dirección de Empresas.
Autoras Margarita Goded y Lourdes Pomposo
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PART 1. USE OF LANGUAGE.
Remember that the Language that you are going to practice in each unit is just a review or
reminder of the general grammar that you already know but related to the topic of each lesson.
This symbol will be used for THEORY
This symbol will be used for PRACTICE.
Describe objects and services. Introduction.
Describing objects and services follow a similar pattern in both cases. Answering the following questions
will help the description of both.
Write the name of the product or service you wish to describe filling in these boxes.
Name of product/ object
Describing objects
Describing products
What’s it like?
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What shape is it?
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How big is it?
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What colour is it?
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What’s it made of?
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Who is it made by
What is it for?
How much does it cost?
1.1. Word order in English. Basic writing skills
1.1.1. THE SENTENCE
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As you know, a sentence is a set of words that make sense.
There are sentences with one word: Come!
Two words: She runs
Or more: I love you.
Most of the sentences in English can be written like in Spanish. The problem comes where there are
several words in a sentence and the order differs from the Spanish word order. Remember that in
English the word order in a simple declarative sentence is normally:
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Document Summary
Describing and presenting products and services: prices, quality, weight and size. Check your progress. (cid:120) (cid:120) (cid:120) (cid:120) bibliography (cid:120) glossary. In this lesson you will first learn how to describe products and services and then you will learn how to measure them. The sentence and the paragraph: review of basic grammar aspects related to the main general objectives: word order, use of present tenses, adjectives and comparative forms and relative clauses, numbers: how to write them. Describing objects and services follow a similar pattern in both cases. Answering the following questions will help the description of both. Write the name of the product or service you wish to describe filling in these boxes. El texto que viene a continuaci n hasta la pg. 7 est sujeto a la legislaci n vigente en materia de derechos de autor. As you know, a sentence is a set of words that make sense.
